Friday, February 28, 2025 12-1PM EST
Instagram Live on @burnaway
The fifth in Burnaway’s editorial Lunchtime Conversations series, Editorial Assistant Isabella Marie Garcia will be in conversation with poet, interdisciplinary artist, writer, educator, and creative programmer Arsimmer McCoy.
This virtual program will take place on Instagram Live on Friday February 28 at 12PM EST – join on @burnaway!
About Arsimmer
Arsimmer McCoy is a poet, interdisciplinary artist, writer, educator, and creative programmer who merges language, archive, performance, and audio/visual sculpture into a conduit for advocacy. Through a multi-disciplinary, poetry-driven lens, McCoy explores the complexities of identity, memory, and her lived experiences of the Black South.
About Isabella
Isabella “Isa” Marie Garcia is an interdisciplinary lens-based artist, writer, and photographer living in her native Miami, Florida. Interested in alternative educational spaces, holistic aftercare, and supporting visual artists in the American South in her practice, she is a recipient of the 2024 WOPHA Research Fellowship for “The Photography Care Matrix: Teaching Traditional and Experimental Photo Techniques within Prison Environments, Residential Rehabs, and Alternative Schools.” Her writing can be found in publications such as Contemporary And América Latina, Prism, On / Off-Shore: Poets of the Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora, The Art Newspaper, Miami New Times, So to Speak: A feminist journal of language and art, and Burnaway, where she currently works as their editorial assistant.